YouthBuild

YouthBuild was founded in 1990 and "is a youth and community development program that simultaneously addresses core issues facing low-income communities: housing, education, employment, crime prevention, and leadership development. In YouthBuild programs, low-income young people ages 16-24 work toward their GED or high school diploma, learn job skills and serve their communities by building affordable housing, and transform their own lives and roles in society."

Funding
"The Ford Foundation was one of the initial private partners of YouthBuild USA. Since 1993, the Ford Foundation has granted YouthBuild USA several grants totaling over $10 million to support various efforts. In 1995 the Ford Foundation made a $2 million Program Related Investment loan and a $200,000 equity grant that enabled YouthBuild USA to establish the YouthBuild Loan Fund. In March 2000, the Ford Foundation provided a $2 million endowment grant to YouthBuild USA."

Board of Directors
Source
 * Roy O. Priest, Chairman
 * Stanley Rumbaugh, Treasurer
 * Melvyn Colon, Secretary
 * Leroy Looper, Chairman Emeritus
 * David M. Abromowitz, Esq
 * Antoine Bennett
 * Michelle Courton Brown
 * Calvin Cotton
 * Karen Fulbright-Anderson
 * Larry Del Carlo
 * Cliff Johnson
 * Andrew Hahn
 * Francisco Medrano
 * Sikina Lee
 * Eimy Santiago

Contact

 * Web: http://www.youthbuild.org